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  1. All wrong. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    10/0=10 10/1=5 10/3=1.25

  2. Re:Fire Alarms still require POTS on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    We service fire alarms and this is one of our major issues. Property managers try switching to non-POTS lines to save money, which ends up in a fire alarm trouble / service-call because the panel no longer sees the phone lines, which negates any savings on the phone lines immediately. We've been moving panels over to radio monitoring when we can, to work around this.

  3. Aquire and Obscure on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 2

    I don't think Oracle really ever planned on doing much more with MySQL than keeping control of it until it dies.

  4. Re:and why not? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    Lee Beaumont paid £10 plus VAT to set up his personal 0871 line

    Am I missing something, or is "0871 line" something that could be considered common knowledge, especially among the telemarketing industry, to be a premium phone number where the caller will be charged? In the United States there's "1-900" numbers, and it's considered common knowledge that it costs money to call those phone numbers.

  5. DMV Logic on Glasses That Hack Around Colorblindness · · Score: 1

    One downside is the Oxy-Iso lenses hinder the perception of yellows and blues at the expense of enhancing reds and greens. This is especially problematic for drivers because the eyewear renders yellow lights nearly invisible.

    Well damn, I can see red and green better now and I don't see either of those color lights lit, what should I do?!

  6. Re:Try having an original idea on Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly.

  7. Fuck you on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of hearing about this competitiveness bullshit. Pay your fucking share of the taxes assholes. The people who you employ in the states and the majority of the people who buy your shit don't get to dodge paying taxes by putting playing musical chairs with office space. This whole corporate tax rate shit is designed to let these cocksuckers do this shit too. It encourages it. It's setup by the same cocksuckers who do it. We need to get rid of corporate income tax altogether. It's a waste of time and resources trying to collect it and actually getting it is nothing more than a pipe dream. I say we do away with income, corporate, and all similar taxes and have a single federal transaction tax.

  8. The new asbestos on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 1

    I don't like the idea of a biological entity that produces calcium carbonate. This stuff has cancer lawsuits 10-20 years from now written all over it.

  9. Mexicans on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    Wait, aren't the jobs being created the same kind of jobs everyone's worried about the Mexicans coming here and taking ?

  10. Unstable on 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    So when whoever leads this group decides to sell out down the road (don't say it wont happen, it just did...) does that mean I'm going to be left high and dry, again ?

  11. You're fucking retarded on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Right, because the guy who's about to suicide bomb a fucking airplane is going to have second thoughts when he discovers that the "infidels" might lauch at him before he gets on the plane. I hope someone sues the shit out of these stupid bastards. All they're doing is keeping the channel that lets terrorists though while adding fuel to the fire by subjecting them to ridicule I might add, as well as making the people that pay their fucking salary more uncomfortable than they already are. Fuck you airports. This type of shit makes me hope the terrorists beat you, if it weren't for the innocent passengers involved.

  12. injunction on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: 1

    File an injunction preventing Google from continued use of the code. Code was in use before Oracle took control of the code base, no damages are awarded.

  13. Re:Nothing Like a Large Botnet on Rise of the Small Botnet · · Score: 1

    Slash dot dot org bot net.

  14. Tempnet on Rise of the Small Botnet · · Score: 1

    If you think that's bad, just wait until the self-aware temporary infection botnets come out.

  15. Re:Did anyone not see this coming? on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Dont do it on ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Apple's lawyers will be all over this iTLD in no time !

  17. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    The FBI is supported by tax dollars, you're going to pay for it one way or the other.

  18. Re:No help on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    Quarantining them also forces them to do something. It also leaves them with more options than cutting them off completely.

  19. No help on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    How am I supposed to get my computer fixed if I get completely cut off from the Internet?

    I would be much more in favor of rather than being completely cut off, such users were quarantined to a small sub-net with access to sites such as Microsoft.com, common anti-virus providers, etc.

  20. Re:Here's an idea! on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 1

    Considering it's slated to take 8 years, I'm guessing that's how they're going to do it.

  21. Re:Wrong! on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    In both scenarios the person is going to die, so the problem now becomes how to deter others from trying it.

    Which one do you think will deter more people from trying it themselves, a train replacing the space where someone was standing in the blink of an eye, or a bunch of sparks and a smoldering body ?

  22. Re:Wrong! on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    I guess the obvious solution is to electrify the fences with 20,000 volts.

  23. Re:Golden Ratio on Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness · · Score: 1

    The ratio of straight lines rarely has much to do with the female form.

    Unless it's the ratio of straight lines, to gay lines.

  24. Re:Surprised at the "useless" and "aprilfools" tag on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    I prefer lead.

  25. Re:In times of financial crisis on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    That was back before we had teenagers waving around AK-47 assault rifles on youtube.